Once Upon a Time in Beirut (movie)
كان ياما كان في بيروت- User score: 6
- Production country: Argentina, France, Germany, Lebanon
- Producer: Jocelyne Saab
- Production companies: Aleph Production
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1/2/1995
- Run time: 104 min.
Movie description
Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.